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Aditi Patil
Aditi Patil

Reputation: 67

Python Selenium Chrome Driver not typing the url after starting browser

I am doing a python selenium project , I am able to open the chrome browser but it is not typing url into it. Have below is my code and system details.

Python 2.7 Selenium 3.13 Chrome Driver 2.4 Chrome Version 67 Windows 10 -64 bit

Error : -Traceback (most recent call last)

Code :- 

from selenium import webdriver

options=webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\User\aditi\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data")
driver= webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\chrome driver\chromedriver.exe",chrome_options=options)

driver.get("https://stackoverflow.com/")

Error Message

C:\Python27\python.exe     
"C:/Users/aditi/PycharmProjects/DMS/PolicyDownload.py"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/aditi/PycharmProjects/DMS/PolicyDownload.py", line 5, in <module>
driver= webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\chrome driver\chromedriver.exe",chrome_options=options)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 75, in __init__
desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 156, in __init__
self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 251, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 320, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.40.565498 (ea082db3280dd6843ebfb08a625e3eb905c4f5ab),platform=Windows NT 10.0.16299 x86_64)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1130

Answers (1)

Hietsh Kumar
Hietsh Kumar

Reputation: 1329

I had same issue resolved by replacing "\" which is 1 time , by 2 times backword slash"\"

Check if same work for you as well.

Upvotes: 1

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